Glovit is a Technological Surveillance (TS) software created by the company Arcia Soft. It is a web application to support the deployment of processes related to this discipline. Useful for educational and research centers, companies, businesses, organizations, medium and small businesses, and individuals.
The academic, scientific and business fields are advancing at a dizzying speed today, becoming a real challenge to stay up to date with changes, innovations, procedures, technologies and advances in different sectors.
Currently, software tools are crucial to support this complex ethical and systematic process that encompasses much more than the simple collection of information, starting with the definition of needs, scope, objectives, and becoming vital for the identification of new opportunities, risk reduction, anticipation, innovation and of course, strategic decision making.
Glovit use the Really Simple Syndication service (RSS; for its acronym) as the main tool for the automated information collection process.
What is RSS, what is it for and how to obtain it?
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and it is an Internet service used to disseminate updated information to users who have subscribed to a content source. It is necessary to have the address of the RSS channel to be able to read the content that is generated automatically in the source.
This address can be extracted from websites (scientific journals, portals, technological scientific observatories, databases, specialized websites, among others) by right clicking on the available in these spaces and copying the link, or on some occasions, hidden within the source code of the web page (right click, view the source code of the page and search for the word feed or rss).
Where will I use the RSS feeds obtained from Web platforms?
Glovit has three main spaces:
- - TS ONLINE (suggests RSS feeds).
- - TEAM WORK.
- - INDIVIDUAL WORK.
In the last two spaces available in Glovit it is necessary to create RSS channels for the automated collection of content, so it will be necessary to use the RSS channels obtained from Web platforms on the Internet or suggested by Glovit in the first space "TS ONLINE".
What are the steps to work at Glovit?
In both the TEAM WORK and INDIVIDUAL WORK spaces, the steps are summarized as follows:
1. Identify Channels or Feeds (RSS). You can use the "TS ONLINE" section by copying the content of the "RSS FEED" field.
2. Deploy objectives hierarchically.
3. Deploy categories hierarchically.
4. Create content channels (RSS). In this form, paste the RSS FEED copied in step 1, assigning it a goal and a category.
5. Enter each content channel (RSS) and capture the information through the button available to the right of the channel name.
6. Use the search engine, filters, access to the "Analytics" section and the "Portal" created to disseminate and share content.
What are the benefits of Glovit?
Among the many benefits of
Glovit, the following can be listed:
- - Suggests and bundles TS online.
- - Centralize information.
- - Secure gateway to the Internet.
- - Timely access to organized information.
- - Ubiquity (available in the cloud).
- - Automate information capture.
- - Fortalece trabajo colaborativo.
- - Allows you to deploy collective and individual strategies.
- - Users act according to their role.
- - Enriches the information obtained.
- - Analytics for decision making.
- - Decentralizes the complex process of TS.